✈️ Starlink is now onboard Gulf Air —Gulf Air (Bahrain's national carrier) has started rolling out Starlink high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi.

Their first Starlink-equipped Airbus A320neo has entered service, offering complimentary, gate-to-gate connectivity to all passengers.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Kennedy to support Senate crypto bill

Sen. John Kennedy said Wednesday that he plans to vote for landmark cryptocurrency legislation in the Senate Banking Committee this week, clearing the way for the bill to advance whether it wins bipartisan backing or not.

“This is not a perfect bill,” — the Louisiana Republican told reporters Wednesday. “But it’s a good bill, and it’s a good start.”

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 White House releases video celebrating President Trump's arrival in China. Trump, Xi to weigh tariff cuts on $30 billion of imports in managed trade push.

The U.S. and China are expected to inch toward a managed trade mechanism for non-sensitive goods this week, with each side possibly identifying some $30 billion worth of goods on ​which they could reduce tariffs and sell to each other without crossing national security red lines.

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💊 World’s first BCI technology targets high-level brain function to restore independence

Brandon Patterson hasn’t moved his fingers in nine years due to a spinal cord injury. But recently, he felt them twitch. Patterson, 41, has been paralyzed from the chest down since a Jeep rollover accident in 2017 severed his connection to the world below his shoulders.

Recently, he participated in a pioneering clinical study at UCHealth and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and was implanted with Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. The key innovation in Patterson’s surgery is the strategic relocation of the brain-computer interface.

The technology focuses on the brain’s centers for intent, planning, and decision-making by tapping into these specialized regions. This allows the computer to interpret what the patient wants to do rather than just which muscle to move.

“This surgery is an important step forward not only for this patient but for neuroscience as a whole,” — said Daniel Kramer, MD, assistant professor of neuroscience at the CU Anschutz School of Medicine and a neurosurgeon at UCHealth.

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🇲🇾 Srinivasan Pitches Crypto Startup School to Malaysian Officials

Serial tech investor Balaji Srinivasan is attempting to forge closer ties to politicians in Malaysia, wooing them with a showcase of his startup school project.

At closed door meetings last month, the former Coinbase Global Inc. executive asked officials including Minister of Digital Gobind Singh Deo to consider a tighter-knit relationship between the government and his Network School, which he’s positioned as a means to bring world-class tech talent to the Southeast Asian nation.

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🇨🇳🇪🇺 BYD in Talks With Stellantis and Others About Taking Europe Plants

BYD Co. is negotiating with Stellantis NV and other European carmakers about taking over underutilized factories in the region, according to the Chinese company’s top international executive. The world’s largest seller of electric vehicles is discussing potential deals to take on plants in countries like Italy.

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🍎 Apple Plans Customizable Camera for Pros, Siri Design Changes in iOS 27

Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its Camera app, making the software fully customizable. With the new approach, users will be able to choose which features appear in the Camera app — and where they’re placed. That includes controls for flash, exposure, the timer and resolution.

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🇯🇵 Japan Megabanks Set to Win Mythos Access After Bessent Visit

Japan’s three megabanks — MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho Bank are set to secure access to Anthropic’s AI model Mythos. The planned access was earlier reported by local media outlet Nikkei.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump, Xi Discussed Raising Purchases of American Crops, US Says

US President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed increasing agricultural trade, and improving oil flows at their summit on Thursday, according to a White House official. Trump highlighted the need for China to boost purchases of the country’s farm products and curb flows of fentanyl precursors into the US.

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📱 X launches a History tab for bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles

X is turning itself into more of a “save-it-for-later” app with the launch of a new History tab that collects your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles all in one place for easy access. Initially available on iOS, X head of product, Nikita Bier, describes the new resource as a better way to keep track of all your favorite content and return to things you want to finish reading or watching later.

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😺 OpenAI Floats Idea of Global AI Governance Body With US, China

OpenAI would support the creation of a global governance body for AI led by the US and including China as a member, a top company executive said. When asked about the China summit, OpenAI’s Vice President of Global Affairs Chris Lehane said that the US has an opportunity to use its lead in AI technology to create a global governance mechanism resulting in safer, more resilient systems.

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🇺🇸 Higher-Ethanol Gasoline Wins House Vote in Biofuels Boost

The US House of Representatives passed legislation to allow year-round, nationwide sales of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline, handing a long-sought win to farm groups eager to boost demand for swelling corn supplies.

The measure, which passed 218-203 in a vote Wednesday, is only a first step. It still needs approval in the Senate, where its prospects are uncertain, and then support from the president. But the result represents a major advance for biofuels following more than a decade of failed attempts to expand the market for E15.

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ Clarity Act clears U.S. Senate committee, on its way to a final test in Congress

Landmark legislation to regulate the digital asset industry at large squeezed past a key Senate committee following weeks and months of strained deliberations.

🟠On Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee voted 15-9 to advance its version of a crypto market structure bill, called the Clarity Act, with support from both Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks.

The vote comes after months of tense negotiations among the White House, lawmakers, the crypto industry, and bank trade groups. The bill would comprehensively regulate the crypto industry at the federal level for the first time, in part through divvying up jurisdiction between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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💵 Claude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years

A viral X post is claiming Claude 'cracked' a forgotten bitcoin wallet to recover 5 BTC from a user's computer. But don't get caught in the hype as that is not what happened. Anthropic's AI simply helped the owner search their own computer for an old wallet file, which was then decrypted with a password the owner already had written down in a notebook.

🟠The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.

The recovery happened when the user "dumped my whole college computer into Claude" as a last-ditch effort, and the assistant located an old wallet backup from December 2019 that was encrypted with a password the user already had written down in a notebook. ✍️

❗️The old password decrypted the old backup, which contained the same private keys controlling the current funds, since bitcoin private keys never change.

The password itself was "lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)" 😁 per the user's own X disclosure. Total Vast.ai GPU spend on the failed brute-force attempts was around $15, with the recovery effectively a file search.

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🇮🇳 India Asks US for Russian Waiver Extension

India has asked the US to extend its waiver on Russian oil, as the nearly 11-week war in the Persian Gulf disrupts energy supply. The US first provided a green light in March, and then widened that with an authorization that runs until May 16, in an effort to limit rising oil prices with additional barrels.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇺 CIA Chief Ratcliffe Leads US Delegation to Cuba to Urge Talks

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe led a US delegation to Cuba and conveyed to officials there that the administration wished to negotiate with the communist government, but only if it made changes, an agency official said Thursday.

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🇺🇸 House releases amended housing bill text, schedules vote for next week

Senior House lawmakers late Wednesday reached a bipartisan deal on housing affordability legislation and scheduled a floor vote for next week. The final House text would maintain restrictions on Wall Street’s purchase of single-family homes — a priority for President Donald Trump — but would significantly scale back the Senate bill’s limitations on so-called institutional investors in the housing market.

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